millions of women would lose the right to see the doctor they trust, the doctor of their choosing.

Again, I want to thank everyone on this committee who worked on this bill, most notably our ranking member, Senator Wyden.

There are a whole lot of other people that benefit from that and maybe they should be asked to help support that at the same time.

What we need to do is make sure that we give flexibility for access. Access has to be critical.

the Committee's legislation will finally take the handcuffs off the agents and allow us to simply do our jobs.

What the Trump budget offers is chaos in the private insurance market and the elimination of key consumer protections.

One-point-four trillion dollars cut from Medicaid, millions of Americans locked out of the program.

thank you for raising this crucial issue and bringing attention to an important proposal in the President's budget to lower drug costs for American seniors.

We are going to work with you to see what we can do by April 4.

To do that, you need different kinds of access points, one at the border wall, one further up there, further up again.

the Trump agenda of health-care discrimination is back.

That is where the east-west access becomes critical.

the administration is giving a green light to junk insurance policies that revive the worst insurance abuses of the past.

the CHRONIC Care Act, another bipartisan legislative product out of this committee, was also signed into law recently.

I want to once again commend my colleagues on both sides who joined in this effort and who share in this success.

Before I begin, I want to express, on behalf of the committee, the sadness we all feel in light of yesterday's events in Florida.

Senator Ted Kennedy and I created the CHIP program more than 2 decades ago.

I would like to commend the Subcommittee, Chairman Bishop, and Congressman Johnson, for your work in crafting reform language that has been included in H.R. 4760, Securing America's Future Act.